All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.

Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.

All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. Fog is about the color of the insides of an old split wet summer cottage mattress; smog is the color and consistency of a wet potato chip soaked in a motorman’s glove.

Artists don't need criticism, artists need love

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds—the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.